Meet the directors: Morristown High students 'March On' at Tuesday's MG Film Fest

Ruby & EmilyRuby Huber and Emily Storey, directors of 'March On,' which will be screened at Tuesday's MG Film Fest in Morristown.

March On, an animated music video by incoming Morristown High freshmen Ruby Huber and Emily Storey, will compete for prizes in Tuesday's Second Annual MorristownGreen.com Film Festival. We asked Ruby and Emily to share their cinematic secrets.

MorristownGreen.com: This is not your first music video; what inspired you to make them?

Ruby & Emily: Our inspiration to make these videos is mostly us listening to songs and thinking, "Oh this would be a really cool idea..."

But for this video it was harder to find a song. We already had the topic but had to find a song, so we listened to our iPods on shuffle until we found a hopeful sounding song.
MG: This video is done with markers on a dry erasable whiteboard. How did you come up with this idea?

Ruby & Emily:We wanted to do a stop-motion, but paper would be too wasteful and hard to re-create the same scene for a new frame. Since we have access to a few white boards (four, soon to be six) we thought that was a perfect substitute for paper. (And it's fun!)

Scene from 'March On,' by Ruber Huber & Emily Storey. The animated short will compete for prizes in Tuesday's MG Film Fest.

MG: Who is your FAVORITE band, and why do you love them?

Ruby & Emily: It was really hard to pick our top band but we finally came to the conclusion that Ruby's favorite band is Forever the Sickest Kids and Emily's favorite is The Academy Is....

Forever the Sickest Kids have a very energetic feel to their music and they have an electronic sound. The Academy Is... has a mainstream style but their lyrics are different. They are metaphorical and deep.
MG: Why did you want to submit your movie to the festival?

Ruby & Emily:We decided to submit our video when Ruby received an e-mail from her mom with a link to the contest information. We felt it would be a fun thing to do and a good excuse for another video.

MG: Why do you think it fits our overall theme of HOPE?

Ruby & Emily:The song we chose for our video is a song about not giving up no matter how bad things are for you. It tells a true story of the two brothers who wrote the song and how hard their life was. They never gave up and are now living L.A. as members of a world-famous band that is helping underprivileged kids around the world.
MG: What do you two see yourselves doing throughout your high school years -- continuing these videos?

Ruby & Emily:We are definitely not going to stop making these videos. We have two other ideas in mind and hope to start them as soon as possible. We hope to enter another video in next year's contest too.